If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews.
BOBBY JONESYou are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
More Bobby Jones Quotes
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If I needed advice from my caddie, he’d be hitting the shots and I’d be carrying the bag.
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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He’s a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
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Doesn’t it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
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Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one’s hand.
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I will tell you privately it’s not going to get better, it’s going to get worse all the time, but don’t fret. Remember, we play the ball where it lies, and now let’s not talk about this, ever again.
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Well, I’m glad we don’t have to play in the shade.
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Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.
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Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar.
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Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.
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The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.
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Some people think they are concentrating when they’re merely worrying.
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.
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There isn’t a hole out there [Augusta] that can’t be birdied if you just think. But there isn’t one that can’t be double-bogeyed if you stop thinking.
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The ‘enemy’ in golf is tension.
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You are not playing a human adversary; you a playing a game. You are playing old man par.
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